Which leads to the obvious question: If it’s not the Finance Minister’s responsibility to be held to account for the causal outcomes of his actions, then whose responsibility is it? Is he suggesting that it is the fault of the people who elected him to Parliament? Or perhaps it is the fault of the person who placed him in a position of Cabinet authority for which he is so utterly lacking in competence to properly execute?

Accountability with the Harper government is a facile and vacuous jingle that, in practice, simply means “go pound sand”.

Although it needs to be acknowledged that Harper's unaccountable regime does have another nifty moniker for your consideration: Canada’s New “It’s Not My Fault” Government

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Truth In trusts
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Another unqualified lawyer like Flaherty.Let's examine Mr. Lunn's impressive qualifications, as listed on his web site, to be making these decisions:

"his early working days were spent in the mining and forestry industries""taught first aid for St. John's Ambulance and CPR for the Canadian Heart Foundation""was a member of the Canadian Ski Patrol""a certified journeyman carpenter""a member of the British Columbia Law Society"

Wow, this guy is a business tycoon, a veritable natural resources wunderkind with unlimited management experience. Is this the best that this country can do? I think not.

We should make Gary Lunn move his seat in parliament next to the Chalk River reactor since he believes Linda Keen is an incompetent lay-about whose only calling in life was to harass the Conservative gov`t.

What a "lame-head" & we all know that his lame-headed orders to fire Ms Keen came from the head lame-head , located in the PMO.

Gary , if you see a blinding light as you sit next to Chalk River , it may already be too late.

EVENTS

Income Trust Halloween VigilThanks to all who participated in both the Ottawa and Calgary vigils to mark the anniversary of the announcement.

WE"D LIKE SOME ANSWERS

As you well know, the ‘income trust thing’ has grown beyond the
question of whether fair taxes are paid on income from trusts. It’s
become a giant dirty snowball, and as it rolls forward it accumulates
more and more bulk. There are so many unanswered questions. Let's list a few and invite our "Accountable" government and our free press to provide some much-needed answers.

It is said “Trusts are inefficient use of capital. Why?” Two
related questions are ‘Whose money is it, anyway?’, and ‘Do Canadian
investors have a free and efficient market?’

How can information that is already in the public domain at SEDAR
make for a state secret? How could such information be used to harm
the Canadian national interest? And who would cause the harm?

Why won’t the Canadian media investigate the falsehoods and
misrepresentations told by the Minister of Finance to a committee of
Parliament? Was the Minister in contempt of Parliament?

Why won’t the Canadian media report (a) government tax revenues
gained from BCE in 2006 when BCE was a corporation to (b) government
tax revenues that would be gained in 2007 from BCE, if BCE had been
allowed to proceed to a trust, and (c) government tax revenues that
will be gained in 2007 from BCE, when BCE ownership has been carved
up as 45% foreign ownership and 55% large Canadian pension fund
ownership?